Search results for: birds
Are birds as smart as a 7-year-old ?
7-29-2012 |
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Studies in to bird intelligence have suggested that birds are just as intelligent as young children.
New Zealand 'night parrot' numbers increase
6-23-2012 | 21
A mammoth conservation effort has helped bring one of the rarest birds back from the brink of extinction.
Why are some bird feathers blue?
3-1-2012 | 3
Red and yellow birds get their colour from pigments in the food they eat, but what about blue birds ?
Mystery of incident that inspired 'The Birds'
12-31-2011 | 17
A mysterious incident in 1961 that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's famous film may have finally been solved.
Wasps turn ladybirds into zombie bodyguards
6-24-2011 | 16
A species of parasitic wasp has been found to turn ladybirds in to zombie bodyguards as protection.
Some dinosaurs hunted at night, study claims
4-16-2011 | 7
Studies comparing the eyes of modern day birds with those of dinosaurs suggest some were nocturnal.
Dead birds continue to fall from the sky
1-5-2011 | 718
Arkansas mystery deepens as more birds fall dead from the sky around the world.
1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Arkansas
1-3-2011 | 718
An investigation is ongoing to determine why 1,000 blackbirds fell out of the sky over a 1-mile area.
New hump-backed dinosaur discovered
9-11-2010 | 1
The discovery of a new hump-backed dinosaur in Spain may provide valuable clues to the origin of birds.
'Terror bird' was prize fighter
8-20-2010 | 3
These giant, flightless birds that roamed South America 50 million years ago would have been fearsome predators.
Prehistoric bird species could not flap wings
5-16-2010 | 0
Scientists believe some of the earliest species of prehistoric birds wouldn't have been able to flap their wings.
DNA extracted from extinct bird eggshells
3-13-2010 |
For the first time scientists have succeeded in extracting DNA from the eggshells of extinct birds.
Whole flock of birds falls dead from the sky
3-10-2010 | 49
Experts in the UK are baffled after a flock of over 100 dying birds fell out of the sky on Sunday night.
Feeding birds 'changes evolution'
12-27-2009 | 16
Researchers have revealed that the act of putting food out for the birds can result in a whole new evolutionary path. Eu...
Did ancient birds lose teeth for flight ?
12-10-2009 | 5
New research has suggested that ancient birds may have lost their teeth to lose enough weight to help them fly. The 150 ...
Giant man-eating eagle actually existed
9-17-2009 | 16
The giant man-eating "Haast's Eagle" of New Zealand really did exist according to new research, it would have weighed up...
Pterodactyl fossil reveals complex flight
8-10-2009 | 5
Studies of a pterodactyl fossil have shown that the creature had complex wing fibers that would have enabled it to fly w...
Reverse-engineering bird's quantum compass
6-29-2009 | 0
For years scientists have been studying birds in an attempt to determine exactly how they are able to navigate large dis...
Discovery casts doubt on dinosaur-bird link
6-10-2009 | 32
A new discovery in to the way birds breathe has revealed that it is unlikely that modern birds descended from theropod d...
Penguin poo visible from space
6-3-2009 | 15
In an unusual method to locate penguin breeding colonies scientists have discovered several of their locations by review...
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